Short 1983 Articles
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on March 1983The Barco Corporation recently celebrated its third anniversary by moving into a new facility located in a new industrial park adjacent to the International Airport in Tampa, Fla. Barco Corporation pioneered a new elastomer flexible impeller used in cooling pumps in marine engines as well a
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on March 1983The recent meeting of the Puget Sound Section of ASNE heard Capt. Timothy R. O'Keefe, USN, commanding officer, USS William H. Standley (CG-32), deliver an address entitled "The Soviet Navy: A Near-Term Capability." An intelligence subspecialist with considerable related operational experience
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on March 1983New area offices in Perth, Australia, and Singapore have been established by Jet Research Center (JRC) of Arlington, Texas. The facilities will provide the complete range of JRC explosive technology to the petroleum, marine construction, and dredging industries. Ron Woods, area manager-busi
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on March 1983Jerry L. Holman has been named vice president and general manager of Honeywell's Marine Systems Division (MSD) in Seattle, Wash., a c c o r d i n g to Warde F. Wheaton, executive vice president of Honeywell's Aerospace and Defense business. He will report to Richard J. Boyle, vice president
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on March 1983Two new vice presidents of Tideland Signal Corporation, the Houston, Texas-based designer, manufacturer and worldwide distributor of navigational aids and solar electric generators, have been announced by president S.N. Sprunt. They are Victor G. Taylor, manager, East Coast area, Wilmington,
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on March 1983The Russellstoll Division of the Midland-Ross Corporation, Livingston, N.J., recently assumed total sales and marketing responsibility for Northern Rig Lites, Inc., of Houston, Texas. This product line is to be considered an additional Russellstoll product offering. All existing Russelstoll
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on March 1983Joseph R. Hines has been named vice president of Robin Hood Fleeting Services of Baton Rouge, La. Robin Hood Fleeting is a wholly owned subsidiary of Transload and Transport, Inc. (TTI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Twin City Barge, Inc. The a n n o u n c e m e n t was made by Wayne Musgrov
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on March 1983Global Marine Development Inc., Newport Beach, Calif., (GMDI) and Oceanographic Services Inc. (OSI) Goleta, Calif., jointly announced the opening recently of their Anchorage liaison office in the newly constructed Frontier Building. Manager of the new office is Harold Ramsden of Global Mari
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on March 1983Lavalin Services, Inc. of Montreal (Quebec) Canada, and Solus Ocean Systems, Inc. of Houston, Texas, have agreed to form a jointly owned Canadian company to be called Lavalin Ocean Systems, Ltd. The company's headquarters will be located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lavalin Ocean Systems, Ltd.
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on March 1983Three new appointments in the Central Atlantic division of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., New Orleans, La., were announced recently. William V. Brierre Jr. has been named assistant vice president, Central Atlantic division. Richard J. Lolich has been named director of traffic, and William
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on March 1983Two jackup drilling rigs were christened recently in a ceremony held at Daewoo's Okpo shipyard situated on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. The Friede & Goldman L-780 Mod II-type rigs, which we're ordered byDUal Drilling Co. of the U.S. in September 1981, were named Dual Offshore R
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on March 1983American Lohmann Corporation, Hillside, NJ, is offering free literature describing their marine gearboxes. Featuring the advanced technology developed by Lohmann & Stolterfoht of West Germany, these marine gearboxes offer the design flexibility needed to achieve top propulsion efficiency a
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on March 1983William E. Law, president of Allied Marine Industries, Inc. of Norfolk, Va., has been elected to the board of directors of Twin City Barge, Inc. of South St. Paul, Minn., John W. Lambert, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, announced recently. Twin City Barge and Allied previ
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on March 1983Alex Lange, v i c e - p r e s i d e n t, and Louis P. Huyter, vice-president- sales of Alio International Rubber Ltd., Little Ferry, N.J., recently announced the appointment of Robert A. Salter as sales manager. Mr. Salter will be responsible for Alio International Rubber sales, reporting to
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on March 1983The Heerema Group, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, which is involved worldwide in the design, fabrication, and installation of offshore structures and pipeline systems, recently announced the acquisition of Big Inch Marine Systems Inc. of Houston, Texas. Big Inch Marine Systems provid
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on March 1983Frank Castelvecchi has been named c o r p o r a t e purchasing agent for Ships Supply Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., by Michael C. Kenney, president of the company that supplies provisions, deck, and engine equipment to vessels and industrial plants. Mr. Castelvecchi, who was associated with N
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on March 1983Honeywell Marine Systems Division, of Seattle, Wash., recently created a new group to expand development activities in underwater transducer technology. The Undersea Sensor Group draws into one business unit the engineering, management, and laboratory resources necessary to support all of t
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on March 1983Petronas recently commissioned its first offshore jackup drilling rig built at Promet, Private, Ltd., Singapore. Witnessed by 400 guests, the commissioning ceremony for the Parameswara was performed by Toh Fuan~STihailah, wife of Petronas adviser Tun Hussein Onn. Worth US $49 million, the P
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on March 1983A $l.l-million U.S. Navy contract for the production of URC- 80 VHF-FM communications systems has been awarded to Defense Electronics Operations' Rockwell-Collins Itaiiana S.p.A., a wholly owned Rockwell International Corporation overseas subsidiary. Under the firm, fixed-price agreement, R
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on March 1983Hapag-Lloyd Shipyard, Bremerhaven, West Germany, recently appointed Wesley D. Wheeler Associates, Ltd., of New York, exclusive representatives for the U.S. The Hapag-Lloyd shipyard deals primarily with the repair, conversion, and fitting out of vessels of all types. Two drydocks with all a